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...building smothered in snow climbed a husky figure in heavy arctic gear. Dr. Paul Siple. 49. leader of the U.S. encampment at the South Pole, made his way to a spot his group had picked as the exact locus of the earth's bottom, the South Pole. There, he squinted into the wind and looked around. But he took no readings, noted no data. Siple was out for the sheer fun of standing on the pole in the record-breaking cold...
Word that intermediate-range weapons are ready for the production line came out today in the House investigation of the missile program. Representative Mahon (D-Tex.) said top-level decisions will be forthcoming soon--possibly this week--to resolve Pentagon policy differences and to go into high gear operational production of the intermediate-range ballistic missile--IRBM...
...repository of the free world's power as well as the free world's hope, cannot afford to stake the future upon the enemy's convulsions. The U.S. needs to reawaken to the whole sense of the struggle. Specifically, it needs to re-gear and speed its missile program, and to reshape its alliances with a far greater sense of urgency than Washington has thus far displayed...
...Buttonhook Service" in the Pushbutton Age was indeed a great service to your readers. However, I wonder if we were not closer to "the perfect, unbreakable machine" back in 1950 than we are now. Are we not losing ground? Is progress in reverse gear? As Groucho Marx once said to the woman who was approaching 40: "From which side?" The only dependable gadgets in my home are the old ones. Why could we build such quality in years past and not today? Who sabotaged...
...Defense Minister, Zhukov was scheduled to preside over next week's grandiose celebration of the Revolution's 40th anniversary in Moscow. Masses of the latest military gear are already marshaled under canvas near Red Square. Red luminaries from all over the world, headed by Red China's Mao Tse-tung, are on their way to Moscow. What function would Zhukov be assigned...